Glossary
Acronyms Used in the Text
- AAS
American Astronomical Society
- ACA
ALMA Compact Array (Morita Array)
- ACAST
NSF Advisory Committee on Astronomical Sciences
- ACC
ALMA Coordinating Committee
- ACR
ALMA Cost Review
- ADC
Analogue to Digital Converter
- ADCR
ALMA Delta Cost Review
- ADMiT
ALMA Data Mining Toolkit
- AEC
ALMA Executive Committee
- AEG
Antenna Evaluation Group
- AEM
Alcatel Space France, European Industrial Engineering S.r.L., MAN consortium
- AIPS
Astronomical Imaging Processing System
- AIV
Assembly, Integration, and Verification
- ALG
ALMA Liaison Group
- ALMA
Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
- AMAC
ALMA Management Advisory Committee
- ANID
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo [Chile]
- AOS
Array Operations Site
- APEX
Atacama Pathfinder Experiment
- ARC
ALMA Regional Center
- ARI-L
Additional Representative Images for Legacy
- ASA
ALMA Science Archive
- ASAC
ALMA Scientific Advisory Committee
- ASIAA
Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics [Taiwan]
- ASP
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- ASPECS
ALMA Spectroscopic Survey
- AST
NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences
- ASTE
Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment
- ATWG
Antenna Technical Working Group
- AU
Astronomical Unit
- AUI
Associated Universities Inc.
- AURA
Associated Universities for Research in Astronomy
- AXAF
Advanced X-ray Astronomy Facility
- BEC
Business Evaluation Committee
- BIMA
Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association
- BN
Bienes Nacionales [Chile]
- BUS
Back Up Structure
- CAC
Contract Award Committee
- Caltech
California Institute of Technology
- CARMA
Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy
- CARTA
Cube Analysis and Rendering Tool for Astronomy
- CASA
Common Astronomy Software Applications
- CDL
Central Development Laboratory [NRAO]
- CERN
Organisation Europeénne pour la Recherche Nucléaire
- CfA
Center for Astrophysics
- CFRP
Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Plastic
- CfT
Call for Tender
- CNRS
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [France]
- CoC
ESO Committee of Council
- CONICYT
Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica [Chile]
- CSC
Contract Selection Committee
- CSO
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
- CSV
Commissioning and Science Verification
- CTIO
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
- DSHARP
Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution
- EA
East Asia [ALMA Partner]
- EACC
Extended ALMA Coordinating Committee
- EU
European [ALMA Partner]
- EHT
Event Horizon Telescope
- EIE
European Industrial Engineering Consortium
- EIS
Environmental Impact Statement
- ELT
Extremely Large Telescope
- ESO
European Southern Observatory
- ESSCO
Electronic Space Systems Corporation
- EVALSO
Enabling Virtual Access to Latin American Southern Observatories
- EVLA
Expanded Very Large Array
- FC
Finance Committee [ESO]
- FCRAO
Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory
- FIU
Florida International University
- GA
Gaz Atacama
- GBT
Green Bank Telescope
- GIPSY
Groningen Image Processing System
- GISS
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
- GMC
Giant Molecular Cloud
- GMT
Giant Magellan Telescope
- HCRO
Hat Creek Radio Observatory
- HEMT
High Electron Mobility Transistor
- HIAA
Herzberg Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics [Canada]
- HST
Hubble Space Telescope
- IAU
International Astronomical Union
- IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- IfA
Institute for Astronomy [U. Hawaii]
- IPT
Integrated Project Team
- IRAM
Institute de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique
- IRAS
Infrared Astronomy Survey
- IS
International Staff
- ISM
InterStellar Medium
- ITU-R
International Telecommunication Union Radio Communication Sector
- JAO
Joint ALMA Office
- JATG
Joint Antenna Technical Group
- JCMT
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
- JDG
Joint Development Group
- JTET
Joint Technical Evaluation Team
- KSAI
Korea Space Science Institute
- LCO
Las Campanas Observatory
- LMA
Large Millimeter Array
- LMSA
Large Millimeter Submillimeter Array
- LMT
Large Millimeter Telescope
- LPG
Liquified Petroleum Gas
- LS
Local Staff
- LSA
Large Southern Array
- MAPS
Molecules with ALMA at Planet-Forming Scales
- MELCO
Mitsubishi Electric Company
- MEXT
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology [Japan]
- MIRIAD
Multichannel Image Reduction, Image Analysis, and Display
- MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MMA
Millimeter Array
- MOU
Memorandum of Understanding
- MPIA
Max Planck Intitute für Astronomie
- MPIfR
Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie
- MPS
Mathematics and Physical Sciences Division of the NSF
- MRE
Major Research Equipment
- MREFC
Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction
- MWL
Millimeter Wave Laboratory [U. Chile]
- MWO
Millimeter Wave Observatory
- NA
North America [ALMA Partner]
- NAOJ
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
- NAFTA
North American Free Trade Act
- NAPRA
North American Program in Radio Astronomy
- NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NCMR
NSF Cost/Management Review
- NEON
National Ecological Observatory Network
- NFRA
Netherlands Foundation for Radio Astronomy
- ngVLA
Next Generation Very Large Array
- NINS
National Institutes of Natural Science [Japan]
- NMA
Nobeyama Millimeter Array
- NOAO
National Optical Astronomy Observatory
- NOEMA
NOthern Extended Millimetre Array
- NRA
National Rifle Association
- NRAO
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
- NRC
National Research Council [Canada]
- NRO
Nobeyama Radio Observatory
- NSB
National Science Board
- NSF
National Science Foundation
- NWO
Netherlands Research Council
- OLPA
Office of Legislative and Public Affairs [NSF]
- OSF
Operations Support Facility
- OSO
Onsala Space Observatory
- OVRO
Owens Valley Radio Observatory
- OWL
OverWhelmingly Large telescope
- QUARRY
QUabbin ARRaY receiver
- PAI
Project Acceptance In-house
- PAS
Provisional Acceptance On-Site
- PILS
Protostellar Interferometric Line SurveyProtostellar Interferometric Line Survey
- PRT
Proposal Receipt Team
- PWV
Precipitable Water Vapor
- RCL
Radioastronomía Chajnantor Limitada
- REBELS
Reionization-Era Bright Line Emission Survey
- RFP
Request for Proposals
- ROW
Right of Way
- SAC
Science Advisory Committee
- SAO
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- SCO
Santiago Central Office
- SCUBA
Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array
- SEQUOIA
Second QUabbin Optical Imaging Array
- SEST
Sweden-ESO Submillimetre Telescope
- SETI
Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence
- SIRTF
Space Infrared Telescope Facility (Spitzer)
- SIS
Super Conductor-Insulator-Superconductor
- SKAO
Square Kilometer Array Observatory
- SMA
SubMillimeter Array
- SMT
SubMillimeter Telescope [U. Arizona]
- SOKENDAI
Graduate University for Advanced Studies
- SONG
Survey of Normal Galaxies
- STC
ESO’s Science and Technology Committee
- SUBTEL
Telecommunications Subsecretary of Chile
- SUNY
State University of New York
- TAC
Technical Advisory Committee
- TMT
Thirty Meter Telescope
- UCh
Universidad de Chile
- UK
United Kingdom
- US
United States
- VA
Vertex Antennentechnik
- VLA
Very Large Array
- VLBA
Very Long Baseline Array
- VLBI
Very Long Baseline Interferometry
- VLT
Very Large Telescope
- WBS
Work Breakdown Structure
- WSU
Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade
Abbreviations for Journals
- A&A
Astronomy and Astrophysics
- AJ
Astronomical Journal
- ApJ
Astrophysical Journal
- ApJL
Astrophysical Journal (Letters)
- ApJS
Astrophysical Journal Supplement
- ASPC
Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference (Series)
- ASR
Advances in Space Research
- BAAS
Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
- JAHH
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
- JRASC
Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
- LNP
Lecture Notes in Physics
- MNRAS
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- PASJ
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
- PASP
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- PhRvL
Physical Review Letters
- PJAB
Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B
Citation Abbreviations for NRAO/AUI Archives Material
- NAA
NRAO/AUI Archives
- NAA-AUI
NRAO/AUI Archives, Records of Associated Universities, Inc.
- NAA-NRAO
NRAO/AUI Archives, Records of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory
- NAA-PVB
NAA/NRAO, Papers of Paul A. Vanden Bout
- NAA-RLB
NAA/NRAO, Papers of Robert L. Brown
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